Stars Wednesday C.C. Sabathia , Brewers, struck out eight in his 10th straight win during a 7-1 win over the Padres. Delmon Young , Twins, homered and drove in three runs in a 4-2 win over the Yankees. After striking out four times, Wladimir Balentien , Mariners, hit a three-run homer in the 12th inning in a 10-7 win over the Angels. Nomar Garciaparra , Dodgers, hit a walk-off homer in the ninth inning of a 7-6 win over the Phillies. Mark Buehrle , White Sox, scattered five hits over seven innings, striking out five to improve to 18-8 lifetime against the Royals after a 4-0 victory. Troy Glaus , Cardinals, was 4 for 4 with a double and RBI in a 6-4 win over the Marlins. Dan Murphy , Mets, kept up his rookie roll by going 3 for 6 with a home run and three RBIs in a 12-0 rout of the Nationals. Jeremy Guthrie , Orioles, gave up a run and four hits over seven innings in a 6-1 victory over the Indians. Kevin Youkilis, Red Sox, had three doubles and drove in two runs in an 8-4 win over the Rangers. Youkilis also scored three times.

Seasons Aug. 15 1905 — Rube Waddell of the Philadelphia Athletics pitched a five-inning no-hit game to beat the St. Louis Browns, 2-0. 1914 — Brooklyn’s Jake Daubert set a NL record with four sacrifice hits in the second game of a doubleheader against Philadelphia. 1916 — In a classic pitching duel, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox beat Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1-0, in 13 innings at Fenway Park. 1945 — The Chicago Cubs routed the Brooklyn Dodgers, 20-6, at Ebbets Field. Paul Gillespie knocked in six runs with two home runs and a single to lead the attack. 1955 — Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves hit a home run off Mel Wright of the St. Louis Cardinals to give Spahn a homer in every NL park. 1975 — Baltimore manager Earl Weaver was ejected twice by umpire Ron Luciano. Weaver was thrown out in the first game and was ejected before the second game. 1989 — Dave Dravecky of the San Francisco Giants, in his second start after coming back from cancer surgery on his pitching arm, broke his arm but earned the win in a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Expos. Dravecky entered the sixth inning with a three-hit shutout. He gave up a leadoff home run to Damaso Garcia and hit Andres Galarraga with a pitch. After throwing a wild pitch to Tim Raines, he collapsed to the ground and clutched his left arm in agony. 1990 — Philadelphia’s Terry Mulholland pitched the record eighth no-hitter of the season as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants, 6-0. The season’s eighth no-hitter surpassed the modern record of seven set in 1908 and 1917. 1990 — Mark McGwire hit a grand slam in the 10th inning to become the first major league player to hit 30 or more homers in his first four seasons and lifted the Oakland Athletics to a 6-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox. 2001 — Trevor Hoffman pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 300th career save, completing a two-hitter that lifted the San Diego Padres over the New York Mets, 2-1. 2005 — Randy Winn hit for the cycle in his first four at-bats in San Francisco’s 7-3 win over Cincinnati. 2006 — Jose Reyes homered three times in the New York Mets’ 11-4 loss to Philadelphia.

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